SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government will provide North Korean defectors with free health checkups, online tutoring services for students and other support measures to help them better settle in their new homeland, officials said Monday. It is the first time in nine years that Seoul has put together support measures [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Sunday it will launch a 180 billion won (US$150 million) project to link parks and other green spaces with “green roads” in an effort to make urban green spaces more accessible. Under the Green Road Project, the city government plans to renovate and create [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI)-based safety management system will be introduced at construction sites in Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Digital Foundation announced Thursday the launch of a trial project for introducing AI-based safety solutions at private construction sites in the city. The AI system conducts [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With sales of high-end imported cars increasing last year, Seoul’s Jung District has surpassed the affluent Gangnam District, and now has the highest proportion of registered imported cars. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport reported that the number of imported cars registered in Jung District reached 23,578 vehicles [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Monday it will pay subsidies to buyers of about 14,200 electric vehicles during the first half, as part of its bid to support the purchase of 27,000 electric vehicles for the whole year. The Seoul government had supplied 52,400 electric vehicles for 13 years [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Cell phones will be banned from use on construction projects commissioned by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The city government announced Thursday that it has implemented a new policy on mobile phone use by construction workers as part of its efforts to prevent accidents. The policy was inspired by Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul will receive citizens’ applications to choose sites for new electric vehicle chargers as part of its plan to supply 35,000 charging stations in the capital this year, city officials said Thursday. About 22,000 EV chargers will be installed in the city with the support of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — For Lee Bok-won, a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in western Seoul, stocking up on fresh homemade kimchi during winter has been quite a chore for the past several years. The process, traditionally done by family groups over multiple days, usually involves a painstaking process of soaking a large [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government and gas station operator SK Energy Co. on Wednesday opened the first Total Energy Station that is designed to produce electricity as well as to enable the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) using a fuel cell and a solar power system. The energy station, installed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The first batch of self-driving taxies in Seoul will go into service in the city’s western region this week, the city government said Wednesday. Four autonomous cars will start providing public taxi services in the Sangam-dong district in western Seoul on Thursday, covering two separate transportation routes. Any passenger [...]